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Kernel 2.4.26 Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the living-in-the-safety-zone dept.

StupidKatz writes "Fresh from the oven, the fine folks at kernel.org have released 2.4.26, filled with such yummy goodness as fixes for those damnable mmap() vulns, among other things. Remember to use your favorite mirror!"

2 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why still 2.4? by cybermace5 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I no longer have the time to sit and tweak kernel configs, follow endless loops of dependency problems, hunt on the web in search of answers until I find myself trying to understand something in Russian, recompile to fix an error, fail to fix it, and add another error...I've given up on 2.6 until some major distributions other than Mandrake are actually set up to use it. Go ahead and blame me for being stupid, but I've compiled hundreds of kernels, worked out config problems, and never run into a dead end before.

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  2. Re: Oh boy! Oh boy! Amen! by quarkscat · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have found someone who (maybe) understands
    the Windoze-for-Internet situation: the
    machine that needs the most patching for
    vulnerabilities needs to be closest to the
    source.
    ( fsck you, M$, for your
    hideous online updates).
    I am running OSX, Solaris, OpenBSD, Linux,
    IRIX, QNX, and Netware here (besides Windoze),
    so please don't judge me too harshly ...